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  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old ... week we cover a different fabrication technique on our quest to make (almost) anything: it's a semester-long crash course on making for those who

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  the SMASH board as a representative from the MedLinks executive board. MedLinks is the student group at MIT that "links" or provides a midpoint ... lacking - communication. I've been working on a project to collect and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  " Another intern told me one day during work.  I've never been called a yankee ... coast are coasters.  So I'm a yankee coaster.  I can't imagine Boston Red ... times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  side, I got to kick back on a couch sipping on an ice tea while browsing ... up when you have to consistently give a speech at every Commencement ... around and took a selfie with Anika Gupta, senior class president

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... going to Seahawks playoff game(s) while I'm stuck yelling at a TV about 3 ... the wheel after six months of no driving and navigate the roads by a map

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs ... Pistol a HT@MIT, it's the instructor Mike Conti.   Background I took

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a ... mailing lists that only see use for a semester, others that get used for a ... guess what a group's mailing list name might be). Take, for example, the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  warm! I spent last week on vacation on a lake with my family, where I practiced wakesurfing and (poorly) performed in a triathlon. 2) Sports! As you may know, I'm a football fanatic, and since there is no lockout

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  I know it's been a long time since I've posted a blog... but I'm back ... ? Well, the basic concept behind our toy was a nerf gun that had two blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined ... ,998 feet*. I hate you, technology. But sometimes you are a cool cat. I spent ... the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  , there was a line stretching all the way down the exterior set of stairs ... that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller ... from the International Film Festival (IFF, a series of film events of

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  Ahh!!! This blog is finally happening! I think my bio page gives a ... out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of ... ! It’s been over a month since I arrived @ MIT and naturally, I have

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  published some instructions I made on how to build a loft. ANFSCD This last ... 't attend as a college student, I was there for Livescribe, demoing and ... blogger guy?" a couple of times. But, I mean really, who wouldn't recognize

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the Giant Leaps celebration, which included a symposium, a Boston pops concert ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working ... related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... students chooses one project and follow it through over the course of a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to be a cat in the winter time. Today I wrested the last fateful drop out of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  Apple store on Boylston Street. Although the store's actually less than a mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  next year, I got back from work yesterday and spotted a tour group making ... !" There was a very confused "Hi . . . Snively?" from the tour group as I ... exploring my external hard drive (a device which made losing my internal hard

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... class, RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it at an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008